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Strength Resetting?

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Okay , Well you know like how pokemon strength seems to reset sometimes in the anime? It just came to my attention that back in the Kanto battle frontier arc pikachu beat a regice and then in Sinnoh Loses to a Onyx and ties a elekid. Kind of odd dont you think?, Then buizel use to be one of ash,s strongest pokemon in sinnoh and its strength seemed to reset at byrons gym. Same with how gliscor beat bastiodon then did pitiful against snover and decent against torterra discuss.

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Yeah, I noticed that. It could just be that Pikachu used a very strong Volt Tackle that time. Paul's Elekid could have just been able to handle a lot of Pikachu's attacks. So, I don't know if it is necessarily strength resetting.
 
Yeah it has to be like this. I mean if Pikachu keep up with that Uber power then the Gym matches will be a joke. As for Buizel it hasn't lost its power. It is not getting time to show it. As for Gliscor I am not sure about anime but it can be explained from Games point of view because Gliscor is a physical wall but Snover used special attacks that were 4x on poor flying scorp.
 
Pikachu's loss of strength can be explained pretty easily. Each time we reach a new region the writers have a tendency to get him split up from ash through some electric machine of team rockets which affects him. Thus he has to go through each freaking region regaining the loss energy from the encounter with team rocket each time a new region pops up.
 
mitchman_93 said:
Pikachu's loss of strength can be explained pretty easily. Each time we reach a new region the writers have a tendency to get him split up from ash through some electric machine of team rockets which affects him. Thus he has to go through each freaking region regaining the loss energy from the encounter with team rocket each time a new region pops up.
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It's probably this, will this ever get boring? Maybe it won't, cuz everyone just forgets about it.
 
Well it's not like they go by levels or stats on the show so the writers probably just make the pokemon as strong as they need to be for whatever the situation or plot is.
 
But Pikachu took Elekid out with JUST an Iron Tail!
 
You know Pikachu and Ash aren't the only ones who become stronger, the rest of them also train hard. And considering certain gym leaders and such are older then Ash and probably had thier Pokemon longer hence more experience.
 
However, it's reasonable to expected that Gym Leaders grant badges to all levels of trainers, yet they do not have an unlimited amount of Pokemon. So you can either say that the Gym Leaders are really good, but go easy on newcomers, or that there are power fluctuations.

Consider this, Ash has yet to win a league. He's not the best trainer, but he's far from the worst. Trainers worse than Ash get badges as well. They beat the same gym leaders that he loses to. But we can certainly say that Ash has improved in his journey.
 
This topic has been discussed since..............forever. Its true that the writers have a bad habit of resetting everyone's power back and again, but this makes no sense at times, and causes a lot of frustration to me atleast. They should atleast make some suggestions in the anime as to why Pikachu lost to Onix after beating Regice.
 
Bliksem said:
However, it's reasonable to expected that Gym Leaders grant badges to all levels of trainers, yet they do not have an unlimited amount of Pokemon. So you can either say that the Gym Leaders are really good, but go easy on newcomers, or that there are power fluctuations.
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The problem is gym leaders would have to have an enormous amount of insight to go easy on beginning trainers. It's not like it would come up or anything since Ash rarely mentions to other gym leaders how many badges he has (in total). The only number that would come up is the current specific regional badge number. For example Ash has seven Sinnoh Badges.

I think the reason Ash does "badly" is because he starts off new like any other beginner trainer with the exception of Pikachu. And he has to work with his Pokemon to be in sync with them.

As for why Pikachu lost/tied to Paul's Elekid. It's Paul. His newly caught Ursaring shredded Pikachu like it was nothing. "Chimchar" had to finish it off.

Or why did it lose to Roark's Onix the first time around? Pikachu is small and fragile, regardless of the power level if the opponent, if Pikachu gets smacked by at least a one hundred pound tail it's going to hurt. Onix is at least 35X heavier than Pikachu. And I do like the glass cannon definition of the strength of Pikachu. If it can land hits without getting hurt too much it's going to knock out the Pokemon. But if its hit by powerful hits, it can't survive it.

As for other strength resetting. I think in that case it depends on the plot. Would it benefit the story if certain Pokemon of Ash's beats opponent's Pokemon?
 
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